The 2011 Socionomics Summit

HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE SPEAKERS AND THEIR TOPICS:

• EWI’s Robert Prechter delivers the Summit’s opening and closing remarks. His morning remarks offer a powerful contrast of the socionomic perspective vs. conventional notions. In the afternoon, Bob spells out stunning real-world examples of the fractal nature of herding in financial markets.
• Georgia Institute of Technology professor Eric Gilbert: “Widespread Worry and the Stock Market.” Gilbert’s landmark 2010 study showes how blog posts on livejournal.com predict market changes.
• Indiana University professor Johan Bollen and Huina Mao: “Measurements of public mood states predict the DJIA.” Bollen and Mao’s analysis of social mood exhibited in Twitter feeds predicted changes in the closing values of the DJIA at an accuracy of 86.7%.
• Successful hedge fund manager Scott Reamer: “Socionomics as an Investment Philosophy: the ‘Unified Field Theory’ of Economics, Physics, and Sociology.” Reamer gives his thoughts on why the socionomic hypothesis is critical to dealing with life’s inherent uncertainties – in markets, in academia, and in life.
• Scholar and best-selling author of Mood Matters, John Casti: “Anticipation of Extreme Events in Human Society.” Casti explains how the social mood of a population is a leading indicator of collective social events of all types, ranging from trends in popular culture to the rise and collapse of world powers.
• Emmy award-winning Minyanville sage Kevin Depew: “Zombinomics: How Social Mood Has Us Hungry for Flesh and Brains.” Depew offers a humorous and insightful analysis of how a negative social mood takes pop culture into dark places.
• EWI’s Asia analyst Mark Galasiewski: “Emerging Markets and Violence.” Mark explains how he combined his knowledge of political trends in the Middle East with his Elliott wave analysis of markets in the region to make stunningly accurate forecasts in both arenas.